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Ok.

Well, what are you looking for as proof? The war was supposed to be over in 96 hours, we're on day 16 and the Russians have lost over a thousand vehicles alone. They still haven't taken any major cities. That's pretty strong evidence that "organized" resistance is happening.

Huh, what makes you think the Ukrainians don't have an "organized military"?

New England gets 2 in the 3rd round.

What's good for Ukraine is good for Ukraine, and we can't hold their choices against them. We aren't fighting. But those terms would let Putin spin this as a victory, and set him or a successor up for round 2. It would guarantee Ukraine's short term survival at the cost of any guarantee of long term security. If Ukraine gave up Luhansk, Donetsk and Crimea forever in exchange for NATO and EU membership, they'd actually be a sovereign nation. Instead of trusting Tsar Vladimir the Insane or whoever follows him...

We definitely won in this trade

Ukraine's apparently got 5 tank brigades they've been sitting on, and 90% of Russia's mobilized troops are in the field. It's a ripe time to hit back...unless those brigades are all the mechanized troops Ukraine has left. Hopefully things keep going ***** for Russia, but eventually Ukraine's got to hit back somewhere. Probably in the south between Mariupol and Odessa, where Russian forces aren't a total clown show. Put paid to the most successful Russian advance, and protect the forces facing Luhansk, Donetsk, and holding Kahrkiv from encirclement.

We're suffering from a massive case of the boy who cried wolf. Ever since the forever wars started, we've been fed a line about the next Hitler, mushroom clouds, wmds and whatever. Now when there's an actual maniac who wants to reconquer a dead empire, everyone on all sides of the political spectrum is fed up. It's ***** sad that we've come to this. because everyone is torn between standing up to Tsar Vladimir the Insane and starting ANOTHER war that goes on and on and on and on.

If you can boil them down to "wake up sheeple, the (insert his favorite bad guys here) are lying to you", why bother with the SAT word salad?

What do you think of the author's essay? I read it and it's the sort of sneering, elitist alphabet soup you'd expect from some Ivory tower egg head spinning his pet theory like it's scripture.

Yeah...why do you think that is? The other thing is why the hell is 1st Guards Tank Army deployed near Kharkiv, rather than leading the drive on Kyiv or Mariupol? It's supposed to be Russia's A Team in terms of gear, training, and quality of leadership. But it's doing a fixing/screening mission against Ukraine's best units instead of trying to win the war?

Indeed! The French equivalent of a panzer division, the Division Legere Mechanique (DLM) actually got to fight the Panzer divisions head on in Belgium and stopped them cold... But they couldn't redeploy to Sedan/Meuse fast enough to seal off the German breakthrough, or coordinate counter attacks to cut off German spearheads. Then the French leadership completely imploded into backstabbing and defeatism and that was that. Sorta the opposite of Ukraine so far. *I'm going to be typing "so far" a lot, because I can't see into the future.

List of Russia's Vehicle losses with photo/video evidence for each vehicle As of today, Russia has lost 656 tanks, trucks, APCs/IFVs, self propelled artillery pieces, and anti-aircraft vehicles. That's destroyed, damaged, abandoned and captured. This site has Ukrainian losses as well. If he's right, Ukraine could replace it's battlefield losses with captured Russian gear AND equip new units with the leftovers. Now for the grain of salt. The countryside isn't exactly swarming with Ukrainian civilians looking for pictures of their own destroyed stuff. But if we had lost 656 vehicles and admitted to 498 KIA and 1500+ wounded in 1 week of Iraq, well no one would believe our casualty figure, and conclude we were getting our asses kicked so far. There's really no basis for comparing Russia and Ukraine with the US and Iraq. Our invasion of Iraq is a model of military planning compared to what Russia is trying right now. Which is sad in itself.

Pedro L. Gonzalez? He's got a LinkedIn. He's worked for a Who's Who of news channels, magazines, think tanks and activist groups, all aligned with the same causes and the same ideology. Currently he works for The Charlemagne Institute. Here's their Mission Statement, which he has to align with to work there. Right now it looks like he's trying very hard to be the conservative clone of AOC. You'll find pretty quickly that most of the tweets quote in Triple P, and most of the tweeters who tweet them, are all chips off the same block. Except for Victor Davis Hanson, he's an actual reputable historian with a side game in pot-banging on the internet.

Who really cares if Farwell was quietly pushed out or fell on his sword. He's not a Bill anymore. Put me firmly in the "sometimes folks at work don't get along" camp.

If Tre is ok with it, there's not much reason for us to stay pissed at him.

The only thing notable about this post is a dime-a-dozen alt-right troll like Jack Posobiec retweeting a story from an organization that is a registered lobbying group for Israel. If there is a tidal wave of Pentagon officials attesting to the sort of delusion the author claims is rife, he could quote some. He doesn't. Instead, he rattles off a lot of crap against an assertion he can't prove. What a garbage take.

Neat thread. Russian nationalists think they are invincible, that nothing actually bad will happen, and this is the start of a new golden age. When someone takes a rosy view of a situation, that's alright. When their view of a complex issue is "my side will get everything it wants and win forever"...yeah. Russia thought the exact same thing when it entered WWI.

Why do they need special rules anyway? Just keep playing extra quarters until somebody is ahead and the clock shows all 0s.

The Russians invaded thinking Ukraine would throw flowers and women on their tanks while they drove to Kyiv, shot Zelensky, and installed some stooges. They have no plan for an occupation, they have no plan for an insurgency. They have a stock market they don't dare open, and a currency that's worthless. Unless they plan on using surface to surface missiles, thermobaric rocket launchers, and waves of tanks to fight a COIN operation, they'll have to retool a substantial portion of their army away from a laser focused mission of fighting NATO conventionally. Or they could just start slaughtering their Slavic, orthodox christian brothers until they realizing how much Ukraine missed Russian domination.

Watching Russia get smoked in the propaganda war...well it's a joy. The image of the Russian Army has gone from an invincible wall of tanks and missile launchers, to crying 19 year olds in baggy camies standing next tanks with no gas. I feel awful for those poor kids. Especially when Putin starts rolling out the heavy artillery on Ukrainian cities, and the locals stop seeing boys in uniforms and start seeing Russian invaders on their way to blow up apartment blocks.

https://www.conservapedia.com/Jack_Posobiec I looked at his Conservapedia page as well if you wanted to know. This is what it says about him: "Jack Posobiec is an American journalist who reports for One America News Network. Posobiec is a veteran intelligence official and Mandarin linguist. He is the author of Citizens For Trump and 4D Warfare. Posobiec is Catholic and a victim of liberal censorship." I went to Wiki because the folks who are on his side have barely anything to say about him, and provided no links to sources or any other information. This guy is a dime-a-dozen Trump fan. He's the red-state version of a limousine liberal, but he gets quoted over and over again in this thread like he's somebody to listen to.

So what? Does Trump want a participation trophy? I'll buy him one that says "I couldn't convince a country to defend itself, but I tried really hard!" I looked at Posobiec's Wiki page. He thought Star Wars: Rogue 1 was secretly anti-trump propaganda, and he was a Lt in the Navy that had his security clearance revoked. He's a tool, quote a better person, they're real easy to find.

Who is Jack Posobiec, and why should anybody care what he thinks.

Right, we were watching the battle, and probably feeding the Ukrainians intelligence. Russia should feel free to disagree with the action if they want, and we've got a circular file ready for the their complaints. Why are we playing polling games? There's been 1 poll out that was conducted entirely since the invasion started, by Morning Consult. Biden's scoring a mediocre-yet-positive 48-43 approval on handling the situation. But to paraphrase Walter from The Big Lebowski, Joe Biden and Donald Trump are not the issues here.